Etienne Quotes in The Beach (2000)

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Etienne Quotes:

  • Etienne: One kilometer.

    Françoise: Two.

    Etienne: Richard?

    Richard: I dunno; I'm American.

    Etienne: So?

    Richard: I think in miles, not kilometers.

    Etienne: Okay, so how many miles do you think it is?

    Richard: I dunno, but it looks like a long way away.

  • Etienne: Oh fuck! Richard! Fuck!

    Richard: What?

    Etienne: I saw a fin!

    Richard: What? Are you joking?

    Etienne: No, no. A fin!

    Richard: OK, a shark fin?

    Etienne: I don't know! Just a fin! Over there, about a hundred meters.

    Richard: Well, was it big?

    Etienne: Yes.

    Richard: Well, what the fuck do you expect me to do about it?

    Etienne: Nothing! I just thought you should know!

    Richard: Well, to be honest, Etienne, I'd rather you hadn't told me!

    Etienne: I'm sorry!

    Richard: Well, it's a bit fuckin' late now, isn't it?

  • Richard: Oh, God!

    Etienne: Putain de merde!

    Etienne: Well?

    Richard: Well, what?

    Etienne: How do we get down?

    Richard: How do we get down? How am I supposed to know? Do I have to decide everything now?

    Françoise: We'll jump.

    Etienne: Fuck! You wanted to be in command, Richard.

    Richard: I only took command, because you lost your nerve, French boy!

    Etienne: Yeah, and look where you've taken us !

    [Large shot on the waterfall]

  • Michael James: Could you tell me about your typical clientele?

    Etienne: My typical clientele?

    Michael James: Typical.

    Etienne: All the people who are here now are typical clientele.

    Michael James: Really?

    Etienne: There is a man cheating on his wife in room Lola Montez. There is a woman cheating on her two husbands in Carlotta. Two lovers of indeterminate sex in Reine Margot. And two men cheating in Don Juan.

    Michael James: Yes. Well, once might say the joint is jumping.

  • Solange: It's Jules and Jim!

    Bill: Hello, Miss.

    Etienne: Hello.

    Delphine: You two again!

  • [first lines]

    [in French, using English subtitles]

    Bill: Set up here?

    Etienne: OK.

    Bill: OK.

  • [last lines]

    [sung, in French, using English subtitles]

    BillEtienneJosette: [singing] We go from place to place, Across rivers and valleys. / They call us carnies, The road is our home base.

  • Yvonne Garnier: How do you treat the ladies?

    Etienne: They aren't our ladies... not really.

    Yvonne Garnier: Performers?

    Etienne: The blonde does an Indian shimmy, the redhead a Chinese shimmy.

  • Etienne: We all seek our feminine ideal. He's not the only one.

  • DelphineSolange: [sinigng] Passion

    BillEtienne: Spirit

    DelphineSolange: Love

    BillEtienne: Folly

    DelphineSolange: Genius

    BillEtienne: Joy

    DelphineSolange: Love and happiness...

  • Yvonne Garnier: Delphine - my daughter.

    Etienne: She's a peach.

    Bill: So are you.

    Yvonne Garnier: So I've been told.

  • EtienneBill: [singing] Fly away, turtledoves, Get along to your tropics, Since our eyes are not topics to make you melt with love,

    Bill: Since our eyes

    Etienne: Are not topics

    EtienneBill: To make your melt with love, Go on then, my lovelies, Good sailing and good loving.

  • Solange: Well, we got applause.

    Etienne: Not quite the Asian shimmy, but it's got charm.

    Solange: Enough out of you!

    Delphine: Go find your shimmiers, you boors!

  • Etienne: To liven up our stand at the fair, we thought - - Well, it was Bill's idea. We thought that maybe you could do a number - - something lively.

    Solange: A number?

    Delphine: They think we're strippers.

    Solange: Obviously.

  • Bill: We're in love with you.

    Delphine: What are they talking about?

    Etienne: So we want to sleep with you.

    DelphineSolange: What?

    Bill: It's normal when you're in love.

    Delphine: That explains the ride?

    Solange: We'll take the train. Ha-ha.

    Etienne: You're not very accommodating.

  • Etienne: [singing] Sing of love

    Bill: Or even hate

    BillEtienne: Just make it bright

    Solange: Sing today

    Delphine: Dance tonight

    DelphineSolange: Sing of light

    Etienne: Dance for joy

    Bill: Sing of wind

    BillEtienne: Sing of sun and rain. Fire us!

    DelphineSolange: Inspire us!

    BillEtienne: Enchant and astonish us...

  • [last lines]

    [last spoken lines, in French, using English subtitles]

    Etienne: Hurry, they're waiting.

    Delphine: Solange isn't here?

    Etienne: Too bad.

    Delphine: But we were to meet at noon.

    Bill: It's nearly half past, get in!

    Delphine: Wait. Here she comes!

    Etienne: No, it's Josette.

    Josette: Wait for me! Take me, I want to see Paris.

    Etienne: Hop in.

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